Strange to refer to it as a supercomputer, when as far as I know, it was the only computer in existence, or one of very few.

Given that large areas of the world do not see breasts as sexual, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that breasts are erogenous because our society has said that they are, rather than any innate characteristic.

When I lived in Africa, women and girls had no problem exposing their breasts, but would go to great length to keep their thighs covered.

In the 1970s, growing up near Toronto, my family was part of a food co-op where my mother would go and work a half day a week, and we would buy food from the co-op that was brought in in bulk, and we used our own containers to bring it home.

Nowadays, there is a chain of bulk stores in Canada called the Bulk Barn hundreds of bulk goods, including many things you can find nowhere else. Typically, you use their containers, but they have a promotion where if you bring your own you get 15% off.

It’s not clear to me what the license is. Given that there are large number of corporate brand icons, I assume that these were just vacuumed up from the web, and there is no way to know if you have the legal right to use them for your own purposes.

There is a disclaimer that the icons are free to download based on the creators copyright restrictions. So presumably because these icons existed somewhere on the web, you have the right to download them onto your computer, but not use them yourself.

Until the licensing issue is clarified, I would stay away.

I’m confused by your use of the word “earned”. I don’t think it fits in this context.

For me, The Black Panther lost my interest when a super advanced, technologically-driven state decided that the best way to choose a ruler was to have two guys punch and kick each other.

My parents were happily using Mint for about 5 years, until my brother took over the it support role, and was uncomfortable trying to troubleshoot issues in Linux.

Well, apart from the fact that she mostly doesn’t actually sing in her concerts (and when she does, it’s heavily Autotuned), and her band doesn’t actually play.

That’s why you end up with an army that is too powerful for anyone civilian to resist.

I don’t have any problem with adults choosing the way they live, but I do think that polygamy can cause deep societal problems. For the record, I used to live in an African country where some men, including my neighbor, had multiple wives. I have seen it work.

So your husband has two wives, potentially more. Assuming that the birth ratio is 50% male and 50% female, that means there is at least one man, possibly more, who have no chance of marrying.

I doubt that anyone would disagree that single men tend to cause more social problems than married men. You can even see it in other species. Maybe it’s the implication that, especially in cultures where prostitution is frowned on or illegal, it means that their options for sex are extremely limited or non-existent.

I know that I would be more than upset if someone told me that I couldn’t get married or even have sex for my entire life.

Cultures have traditionally taken care of this by killing off some men through war and other conflicts. The world is at a stage now where we are trying to prevent this.

Funnily enough, the two ladies in kimonos were probably tourists too, although maybe domestic ones. It’s a common thing in Kyoto to pay to get dressed up in traditional garb and tour the sights.

You were right, I am seeing batteries between about $25 and $60 (Canadian) on Amazon. I’m pretty sure that the last time I looked for one, which was, granted, about 10 years ago, the one I needed was significantly more expensive.

That’s really good to know.

One of the problems with used laptops is that batteries degrade over time. If it has been heavily used, you might only get an hour or two out of it.

You can buy replacement batteries for many laptops that would solve this problem, but they are often $100 or more. Still, it may be worthwhile for you.

A couple of issues with that. For one thing, the uranium coming out of the CANDU reactors has been purified, unlike uranium ore which is mixed in with huge amounts of stone and other materials and it’s natural state.

Also, as I understand it the reactors convert about 1% of the uranium into plutonium, which is much more toxic and emits more radiation.

So while there may not be as great a danger as some people fear, there is definitely more than an equivalent amount of natural uranium.

You see, there’s different kinds of dead: there’s sort of dead, mostly dead, and all dead. – Miracle Max

I also started with Yggdrasil. A CD-ROM in the back of a massive book (printouts of all the man pages, I think).

It’s worth mentioning that in Luke, the earliest Gospel, there was originally no mention of Jesus appearing to anyone after his death.. The women went to the tomb, found it empty, a man dressed in white announced that Jesus had risen, and the women went away, too afraid to tell anyone what they had seen.

And that’s why this prosecutor is making the apology. Everyone knows that he had nothing to do with the original verdict and sentencing, so he looks noble and there is no one alive to actually take the blame.

They acknowledge that the system is flawed, but no one has to do anything about it.

YouTube has just notified me that my family subscription, which cost under USD $3/month because I used a VPN to buy it in Argentina, is about to be canceled, and I have to pay the local amount, about USD $17.

It was good for the 2 years or so while it lasted, but I’m done with YouTube. In any case, I was finding the videos being shoveled in my face were irritatingly uniform and clearly chosen to reinforce my prejudices rather than challenge them or even give me an even-handed selection.

And fuck, I am just tired of all the reaction videos and clickbait “content” by talentless hacks who are just trying to profit off of other people’s creativity.

The best language learning system I’ve ever used is called Language Transfer, and it’s completely free (supported by donations).

It focuses on getting you to use constructs and patterns that you already know in your own language and transferring those to the new language. That way you start off with a good vocabulary and basic grammar.

They have Spanish, as well as German, French, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili.

There is also an app, which is plain but extremely usable.